Scientists have long known that volcanoes shaped the near side of the Moon, visible from Earth. However, very little was ...

If magma erupts on the surface as lava, it will form extrusive rock, e.g. basalt. These rocks are formed when magma solidifies. As the magma cools, mineral crystals will begin to grow. These ...

A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...

Two types of magma exist under the park. One is basaltic magma, which triggers most volcanic activity on Earth. It erupts more easily because it has a lower resistance to flow, but underneath ...

This type of magma is called “basaltic”, and it tends to produce pretty mild eruptions. Hawaii is also a basaltic hotspot, for instance. However, hotspots can also melt the material around ...

The researchers found that the basalt in the sample was similar to basalt ... it was covered by an ocean of magma. The magma ocean model suggests the moon experienced a massive melting event ...

So, rather than using absolute ages to constrain the timescales of individual eruption durations, my research uses the width of a thermal imprint created by a magmatic intrusion to quantify the ...

The basalt present in the Chang'e-6 samples is primarily 2.823 billion years old, and its characteristics support the lunar magma ocean model. The research also suggests that the impact event that ...